Amiga 1000 boot ROM & Kickstart 27.5(!)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Feb 24 17:33:16 1999

Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com> wrote:
> The only place I've seen the term "slushware" used is on the DECmate boxes.
> AFAIK, its use there matches your use here.

Not really. The slushware on a DECmate is in an entirely different address
space from user code, and can only be invoked by trapped I/O instructions
and the like. It is much more like the System Management Mode of the recent
x86 processors (late-486-era to present).

The Kickstart code on the Amiga is the normal operating system in the
normal address space, and directly interacts with user code.
Received on Wed Feb 24 1999 - 17:33:16 GMT